Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Databases
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Trevor Morris ☛ Eleventy Collections from an API
I've been tinkering with a new Eleventy project and decided to fire it up using the 3 beta version. I started by creating two collections using markdown files. Each collection had a template data file which pointed to a specific layout template for the individual posts. Each event had a tag of the location and venue, which I was then able to use to create specific sections for these and individual location and venue pages could then list the events. To list the events I looped through collection[location] where location was the currently viewed page location (as a string).
I wanted to switch from using markdown files to an API which returned JSON. There are a lot of good blog posts about using an API with Eleventy, but these aren't creating collections, they are creating global data.
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TechCrunch ☛ Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a 'cancer to WordPress' and urges community to switch providers
But speaking this week at WordCamp US 2024, a WordPress-focused conference held in Portland, Oregon, Mullenweg pulled no punches in his criticism of WP Engine. Taking to the stage, Mullenweg read out a post he had just published to his personal blog, where he points to the distinct “five for the future” investment pledges made by Automattic and WP Engine to contribute resources to support the sustained growth of WordPress, with Automattic contributing 3,900 hours per week, and WP Engine contributing just 40 hours.
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Cory Dransfeldt ☛ Tracking the music I listen to
Is this worth doing? Should I do it? I dunno — does it sound worth it? I'm thrilled with it. It's not a novel application so much as it is a composition of parts. My site's primarily a blog but it also has, well, all of this built into it. It's very much a personal site. It's also a sisyphean task.
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Michał Sapka ☛ A million Googles
I have left the Google Search Engine a few months ago - first for Duck Duck Go, and now for Kagi1. The field is very potent now - we’ve dozens of different engines. Sadly, they all follow the same formula which has been already perfected by Google. You type what you are looking for, some magic happens, algorithms are algorithming, databases are databasing and boom. You get results. This is what Google was great at some 20 years ago, but sucks at now.